Narrative Nonfiction Books
True stories told with the structure and pacing of novels, often built around archival research and reportage.
93 books
Non-Fiction
33 Strategies of War
Memoir
A Child Called It
Memoir
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Memoir
A House in the Sky
Philosophy
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Non-Fiction
A Walk in the Woods
Non-Fiction
Alive
Philosophy
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Memoir
Angela's Ashes
Annapurna
Philosophy
Antifragile
Non-Fiction
Authentic Happiness
Barefoot
Philosophy
Being Mortal
Non-Fiction
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me
Non-Fiction
Billion Dollar Whale
Black Sun
Romance
Blue Nights
Non-Fiction
Brave Enough
Non-Fiction
Breath
Buy Back Your Time
Non-Fiction
Caste
Non-Fiction
Complex PTSD
Non-Fiction
Country of My Skull
Memoir
Creativity, Inc.
Non-Fiction
Crucial Conversations
Historical Fiction
Dead Wake
Die with Zero
Self-Help
Discipline Equals Freedom
Discipline Is Destiny
Non-Fiction
Dopamine Nation
DotCom Secrets
Earthlings
Non-Fiction
Eat and Run
Effortless
Non-Fiction
Ego Is the Enemy
Non-Fiction
Emotional Intelligence
Memoir
Empire of Pain
Non-Fiction
Empire of the Summer Moon
Non-Fiction
Endurance
Endure
Philosophy
Essentialism
Non-Fiction
Fast Food Nation
Non-Fiction
Friday Night Lights
Non-Fiction
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Homo Deus
Non-Fiction
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Comedy
In Cold Blood
Non-Fiction
In Defense of Food
Non-Fiction
In the Heart of the Sea
Non-Fiction
Inside the Nudge Unit
Non-Fiction
Life After Life
Comedy
Made in America
Metabolical
Non-Fiction
Misbehaving
Non-Fiction
Never Finished
Non-Fiction
On War
Philosophy
Open
Outlive
Non-Fiction
Predictably Irrational
Non-Fiction
The Lost City of Z
Non-Fiction
The Nature Fix
Non-Fiction
The New Jim Crow
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Non-Fiction
The Palace Papers
Literary Fiction
The Plague
Memoir
The Radium Girls
Non-Fiction
The River of Doubt
Non-Fiction
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Non-Fiction
The Sixth Extinction
Non-Fiction
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Non-Fiction
The Snow Leopard
Memoir
The Sound of Gravel
Non-Fiction
The Undoing Project
Non-Fiction
The Wager
Non-Fiction
The Warmth of Other Suns
Memoir
The Year of Magical Thinking
Historical Fiction
The Zookeeper's Wife
Non-Fiction
Touching the Void
Trauma and Recovery
Memoir
Tuesdays with Morrie
Non-Fiction
Turn the Ship Around!
Non-Fiction
Ultra-Processed People
Memoir
Ultramarathon Man
Memoir
Unfollow
Wave
Non-Fiction
What Happened to You?
Memoir
When Breath Becomes Air
Why We Sleep
Memoir
Wild
ZeroZeroZero
Young Adult